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The Promise of Happiness - Value and Meaning in Children's Fiction (Paperback, Revised)
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The Promise of Happiness - Value and Meaning in Children's Fiction (Paperback, Revised)
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Originally published in paperback in 1982, this book was written in
answer to the question 'which books should our children read, and
why?' It is a study of what is, in the author's opinion, the best
children's fiction of the previous hundred years, and at the same
time a study of the social values which that fiction celebrates and
criticises. Fred Inglis concentrates on stories for children aged
between nine and thirteen; he contrasts the kinds of delight and
profit to be gained from classics ancient and modern, from the
novels of Dickens and Lewis Carroll via those of Arthur Ransome and
Tolkien to William Mayne, Ursula Leguin, Russell Hoban and Philippa
Pearce, situating these books in the social context from which they
came and relating them to the audience of adults who are expected
to write, publish, judge and choose books for their children.
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